MINNEAPOLIS CREATIVE CITYMAKING

LESSONS FROM THE FIELD: RELFLECTIONS ON RURAL PLACEMAKING

BREAKING DOWN CREATIVE PLACEMAKING
Across the country, community leaders are talking more and more about the field of creative placemaking. But what exactly does it mean? What kind of impact could it have on your community, and how can you play a role in deciding what happens? This report looks at two examples of creative placemaking, both supported by The Kresge Foundation: the North Collinwood Waterloo Arts District in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Westside neighborhood in Covington, Kentucky.

10 WAYS TO PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY ARTISTS IN THE NEW YEAR
In their weekly blog, Americans for the Arts, takes a look at the several ways communitys, governments, and other leaderships can partner with local artists from making grants more accessible to community artists to Co-creating grant proposals for projects with community artists.

MUNICIPAL ARTIST PARNERSHIPS

RURAL DEVELOPMENT HUBS REPORT

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMS MUST INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION
An article discussing how current versions of local government artist-in-residence programs typically stop short of figuring out how to induce social change by focusing too much on the artists’ narrowly defined art projects.

CLOSING THE WATER ACCESS GAP IN THE US: A NATIONAL ACTION PLAN

NOTES ON A CULTURAL STRATEGY FOR BELONGING

CREATING ACTIVITY-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ARTS